Culture, Work and Emotion
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Epilogue: Towards an Experience Ecology of Relational Emotions
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Branding on the Shop Floor
Service branding is a particular form of emotional management, where employees are regarded as adaptable media, who can be trained to convey corporate values while interacting with customers. This paper examines the identity work of butchers during the…
Cacophony of Voices and Emotions: Dialogic of Buying and Selling art
The importance of galleries as go-betweens for artists and art buyers is acknowledged in art world research. Using a Bakhtinian dialogic approach, this article examines social encounters of three artists, two art buyers and one gallery sales executive …
Bed, Breakfast and Friendship: Intimacy and Distance in Small-Scale Hospitality Businesses
Through an analysis of the narrative of a Bed and Breakfast (B & B) and art gallery owner, the emergence of intimacy as a commercial value in the hospitality industry is illustrated. This is a formation of economic value where economic rationality …
Digital Exhibitionism: The Age of Exposure
Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the sh…
Effective Emotions: The Enactment of a Work Ethic in the Swedish Meeting Industry
The meeting industry – an encompassing term for services related to various kinds of professional meetings, from mega-conventions to the ordinary work meetings – is increasingly consolidated and legitimated as a specific sector in the service industry….
The State and the Supernatural: Support for Prosocial Behavior
Using the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, Roes and Raymond (2003) find that large societies are more likely to be located in resource-rich environments, engage in warfare, and hold beliefs in gods actively supporting human morality (“moralizing gods”)….
Rural Media Spaces: Communication Geography on New Terrain
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Super Network on the Prairie: The Discursive Framing of Broadband Connectivity by Policy Planners and Rural Residents in Alberta, Canada
This paper focuses on the case of the SuperNet, an infrastructure project designed and sponsored by the provincial government of Alberta, Canada with the objective of providing broadband connectivity to public facilities, businesses and residences in r…
Mediatization, Spatial Coherence and Social Sustainability: The Role of Digital Media Networks in a Swedish Countryside Community
What does the implementation of new communication networks mean for the spatial coherence and social sustainability of rural communities? This paper takes its key from Wittel’s discussion of network sociality, understood as the opposite of Gemeinschaft…
Provincial Globalization: The Local Struggle of Place-Making
This paper focuses on the global presence in the local processes of place-making in a rural area in Sweden. As a result of increased competition – fueled by a reorganization of global capitalism – between places, symbolic strategies (i.e. place marketi…
Reading Rural Consumption Practices for Difference: Bolt-holes, Castles and Life-rafts
Based mostly on evidence from the UK, this paper challenges the rural’s usual association with predominantly conservative politics and practices. It advocates showing awareness of ambiguity in how representations, and specifically in this paper rural r…
Reporting an Unsettled Countryside: The News Media and Rural Protests in Britain
Most analyses of the role of the media in shaping and reproducing popular discourses of rurality have focused on film, television drama and literature. Comparatively little attention has been directed towards the role of the news media in framing perce…
Nostalgia Spaces of Consumption and Heterotopia: Ramadan Festivities in Istanbul
Contemporary city cultures are often defined in relation to the processes of late-capitalism and commodification. Today, in various parts of the world, the previously dominant industrial cities have been replaced by cities of consumption (Urry 1995: 12…
Imagining Rural Audiences in Remote Western Australia
In 1979, Australia’s then-Communication Minister Tony Staley commented that the introduction of satellite communications to the bush would “dispel the distance – mental as well as geographical – between urban and regional dwellers, between the haves an…
Commercialization of Lesbian Identities in Showtime’s The L-word
The article discusses recent developments in media culture through one case study: The L-word, the first television series narratively centered around lesbian and bisexual characters. The business discourse surrounding the series’ production is examine…
Experience, Reflexive Socialization and Disciplinary Order in Anthropology
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Lost and Delirious in the Anthropology Graduate Application Process: Negotiations of the Self in early Graduate Socialization
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
"This Masters is Going to Kill Me": E-Narratives of Stress and Support Between Anthropology Graduate Students
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Leaving: A Personal Narrative of Graduate School
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Reconsidering Routes to Membership in the Anthropological Community
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Avoiding Race-Avoidance? Anthropologists and Affirmative Action
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
"Personal Communication, 2006": Authorship and Ownership in Anthropology
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
The Feminization of Anthropology: Moving Private Discourses into the Public Sphere
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18